Hobart Death Ends Vice Presidents Career in Paterson
Garrett A. Hobart Vice-President of the United States died at his Paterson home shortly after 8 o clock Tuesday morning. Dr. William K Newton cites heart failure as the immediate cause after a two week decline. Mrs Hobart, Garritt A Jr, Dr Newton and wife, and nurse Miss Alice Wardell were present. Messages were sent to President McKinley and to Gov Voorhees of New Jersey.
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Garrett A. Hobart
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Paterson
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William K. Newton
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Newton
Alice Wardell
McKinley
White House
Gov. Voorhees
New Jersey
Career of Garrett A Hobart from schoolmaster to VP
Biographical sketch tracing Garrett Augustus Hobart from Long Branch New Jersey birth through education at Rutgers and law career to Paterson city counsel. He rose in New Jersey politics, served in Assembly and Senate, chaired state committees, ran for U.S. Senate, and became Vice President with influential ties to President McKinley. Hobart noted as personable, frugal, and active in charity, with a strong political network and diplomatic skills across administration.
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Rutgers College
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Battle at Gras Pan near Belmont in Boer War clash
Gen Methuen's force meets Boer commandos ten miles north of Belmont while advancing to relieve Kimberley. A long, heavy battle follows with British and naval brigades repelling the attack. Twelve hundred plus Boers captured or missing, several officers killed or wounded, and horses slaughtered in a rain of shrapnel.
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Yorkshire Light Infantry
North Lancashire Regiment
Transvaal
Free State
Delarraye
Alfred P. Ethelsten
Powerful
Guy Senior
Royal Marine Artillery
Monarch
Plumbe
Royal Marines
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Crocodile River
Death of George R. Davis World Fair director dies in Chicago
Col. George R. Davis longtime World’s Fair director dies at his Chicago home on Saturday night. Survived by wife, two sons Benjamin and George R. Davis Jr., and four daughters Delia Nellie Georgia Belle Elizabeth. Born in Peabody Massachusetts, Davis served in the Eighth Massachusetts Infantry and cavalry before becoming director general of the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893.
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Chicago
George R. Davis
Washinsion Boulevard
Benjamin
George R. Davis, Jr
Delia
Nellie
Georgia Belle
Elizabeth Davis
Parton
Foster
J C Davis
Col
Dars
Peaimer
Mass
Eighth Massachusetts Infantry
Cavalry
Horses for Russia and others import scheme revealed
A garbled report notes a representative of Russia buying horses in the United States. It claims 1450 equines have been secured in Kentucky and Virginia and hints at large message exchanges and routine calibrations. Names like Wilson and Murphy appear amid uncertain details of an export and testing process.
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Bieron
Paul Vietinghoff
Kentucky
Virginia
MacArthur Routs Rebels In Luzon Advance Toward Mountains
Gen. MacArthur's advancing forces occupy Mangatarem west of Bayambang in the Agno valley. American escapees report four deserting soldiers with the insurgents and six captured guns. Rebels retreat into the mountains as Major Bell pursues. The commentary weighs Aguinaldo's fate and possible surrender terms.
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Hong Kong
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Mindonao
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Bamban
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San Carlos
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Value of Hobart Estate and Tomb Plan
Deceased Vice President Hobart is estimated to have left an estate of about 5 million dollars with life insurance in several large companies. A monumental tomb will enclose the remains at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, while the body currently rests in the receiving vault.
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Kentucky tobacco growers seek direct sales to bypass trust
Patchy notes show various items including minor news from Kentucky tobacco growers wanting direct sales to consumers, a Pittsburgh body found near a railroad, and mixed mentions of postmaster appointments, a ferry collision in Chicago, color troops and Mexican residents clashes, and other scattered civic items and trials.
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Stebbo
Pittsburg
William Durham
Chicago
New York
British Forces Win at Belmont in South Africa
British victory in South Africa with 225 killed, wounded, or missing as Methuen’s column relieved Kimberley near Belmont. Boers, estimated at 2,000 with two guns, fought strongly and retreated after a bayonet charge on the final ridge. Forty prisoners taken. British losses include 3 officers and 55 men killed, 21 officers and 128 men wounded, 18 missing.
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South Africa
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Mimberley
Belmont
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Noval
Filipinos Fight Near Jaro and Santa Barbara Headed by Col Carpenter
Troops under Colonel Carpenter engage Filipino forces around Jaro and Santa Barbara. American artillery and the Sixth Infantry support with heavy fighting along trenches north of Paris. Eighteenth Regiment assaults dislodging enemy hidden in high grass. several Americans wounded.
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Une
Diaz Petition Seeks Nomination For Liberal Leader
The Mexican populace, including thousands of foreigners, urged President Diaz to accept another term as Liberal party convention nears. Gen Diez argued against extending his rule, while the Paris fair items and various accidents in Bibbville Alabama and Diamond Louisiana are noted amid the tumult. The report also mentions a gas explosion in St Marys West Virginia and a fatality at an arsenal in Troy New York.
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St. Marys
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J. D. Payne
Moses Stutler
Ingenious Pole Trick Foils Woodpeckers In Texas
A Southern Pacific era tale describes Joseph Donner’s iron telegraph poles painted to look like cedar in Western Texas near Spofford Junction. Small buzzer devices inside the tops misled woodpeckers into attacking metal poles, wearing down their bills and stopping pole damage. The plan saved wooden poles, with birds forced to eat gravel as a consequence.
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Southern Pacific Company
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Arizona Desert
Texas
Spofford Junction
Donner
New Orleans Times-Democrat
The Grass Tree of Ceylon Burns Spontaneously?
Reports describe grass trees in Ceylon igniting from friction between branches and burning massing on mountainsides. One native tree is said to catch fire spontaneously, though the exact cause remains unclear. A spinster laments she ever learned the word No.
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Ceylon
Georgie's Gab Our Hierd Gurl and the Fire Incident
A grandmotherly narrator recalls a chaotic night when Georgie’s sister leaves, a boy fetches a trunk for fifty cents weekly, and a careless search for matches triggers a kitchen fire. The tale ends with a tense rescue, a wrecked whiskers, and a long supper at a restaurant, as told in a Chicago Times Herald column.
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Paw
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Chicago Times Herald
Hawthorne essay sparks village gossip at Ohio high school
A graduation essay by a local Ohio student misstates Hawthorne’s age at marriage, prompting neighbors to joke about the author marrying his wife to the old manse. The incident shows small town chatter reflecting on the misquoted line and the reader’s correction.
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Hawthorne
Old Manse
Missi
Maude
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Origin of Foolscap Paper in English Governance
A brief note explains foolscap paper origins in 17th century England. Cromwell placed a liberty strip on government sheets, and after the Restoration he rejected the so called foe's cap when shown a stamped sheet, coining the term foolscap for a particular large writing sheet size.
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